Hannah Hurtzig

Hannah Hurtzig founded the Mobile Academy in 2004. She explores the notion of the archive by collecting narratives about places, cities and territories; and composes audiovisual and sound dialogues which she presents in installations dramatically mingling memory, space and rhetoric. Usually collaborative in nature, her projects evolve as she takes them to different venues – which, reciprocally, metamorphose her themes.

Her works have been shown in Berlin, Bern, Riga, Liverpool, Vienna, Hamburg and elsewhere.

Works

La vie moderne

Night Lessons 2, Création Biennale 2015

An Ecology of the Dead with Vinciane Despret and Guests

Night Lesson No. 2,produced by Mobile Academy BerlinVideo loop 47´One familiar self-characterization and selfcriticism of modernity has always been the claim that our society suppresses death. This stereotype now seems antiquated. Death has always inspired the production of images and texts, but new media have produced an unprecedented visibility of death. Yet, such a mass visibility of the medial dead stands in stark contrast to an individual loss of differentiated experience in dealing with the dead. In her new book, the philosopher Vinciane Despret explores how the dead intervene in the lives of the living and even influence their actions. She observes concrete instances of inventiveness at work in relationships between the dead and the living. She argues against an “unsound milieu” for the dead, as constituted by psychoanalysis, philosophy and other theoretical explanations and obsessions with their clear-cut distinctions between fact and imagination, knowledge and belief, the dead and the living.(Hannah Hurtzig)Vinciane Despret is a philosopher of science at the University of Liège and at the Free University of Brussels. Her book “Au bonheur des morts. Récits de ceux qui restent” will be published this autumn (Les empêcheurs de penser en rond / La découverte).

Also at the Galerie photo de l’Institut lumière, 3 rue de l'Arbre Sec, Lyon 1er